Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche: The Story Of The Only Black Passenger Aboard The Titanic

Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche: The Story Of The Only Black Passenger Aboard The Titanic

Source: Bettmann / Getty When the RMS Titanic set sail in April 1912, among its passengers was a young Haitian engineer whose story would become one of the lesser-known chapters of the historic disaster. Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was just 25 years old when he boarded the Titanic with his white French-born wife, Juliette, and their two young daughters, Simone and Louise. The family was traveling second class as they made their way back to…

Pathetic Scenes as Anxious Relatives Greet Titanic survivors

A newspaper report from 30 April 1912 describes the arrival of Titanic survivors in Southampton aboard the Lapland. Families were reunited with relatives who had survived, while others who had lost relatives were confronted with their loss.... Daily Sketch Tue, 30 Apr 1912